Well the short answer is no. Hagia sofia was converted the rest werent. No distruction christian sites only places that were looted was the palace and the places which resisted.
On a side note can some one tell me how is vlad going to get through the balkans and thrace uncontested? The balkans was the power base for the ottomans because it had good land generaly wealthy compaired to anatolia plus it was filled with muslims. It wasnt a couple of muslim overlords looking after a hord of christians. And another thing how on earth is vlad going to take the city? He has some how slaughtered the ottoman army fought his way through the balkans and thrace traveld a long distance and now his going to take a city which the ottomans almost failed taking. Lets say he reaches c-town which is empty for the sake of argument (which is a stupid asumption) ass soon as some one from c-town see vlads army coming
the navy will be bringing in troops from anatolia
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So lets recap for a moment vlad destroyes the ottoman army and kills mehmet then he fights his way through balkans and thrace reaches the city (ive thrown logistic out the window as you can see hear) gaurds see him lock the gate bring in forces from the anatolia. Whats the state of vlads army he has just defeated the otto armies and traveld a long distance does he have seige equipment ?Does he have an army left with soldiers willing to fight or are they living corpses at this point? How is he going to starve the city of food and soldiers if he doesnt have a navy how is he going to get through the walls and fight the garrisoned troops inside (It too massive cannons to take the city first time around with only couple of thousand troops defending it)? Come on guess be a little realistic hear.BTW Abduls going to blow a gasket when he sees this
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Well, I'm the OP, so I guess I'll try to answer...
(remember, I'm an ecologist, not a military historian...)
Vlad attempted a blitzkrieg-style surprise assault on Constantinople. I imagined, based on Vlad's personality, that he might actually consider pressing his advantage like this when he had the chance.
As to how he managed to get through Bulgaria--well, he got through Bulgaria because he'd already
gotten through it the year before. Which, of course, this being Vlad Tepes, means he went through the land like Tamurlane or Genghis Khan. I don't know the Muslim population of Bulgaria/Thrace in 1460, but as of 1461 (when this scenario happens) there were 43,464 fewer Muslims living in the area (Vlad kept count!), with about half of them festooning stakes inside of Wallachia. Vlad also admitted that he didn't bother counting all the Muslims he and his men burned alive inside their houses and mosques.
The Ottomans also couldn't count on Christian allies in Bulgaria--Vlad forcibly re-settled tens of thousands in Wallachia.
I thought it might be safe to assume that Bulgaria and Thrace were in a bit of disarray at this point, and while Vlad and his troops were making their way across the landscape they were marching across enemy land, but
devastated enemy land.
I was assuming his
blitzkreig was accomplished with only minor skirmishes with the Turks on the way to Constantinople.
I was also going for a sort of "best-laid plans go astray" scenario afflicting the Ottomans. Following Vlad's scouring of Bulgaria and the utter disaster that befell Mehmet, I was assuming that things might be a bit less-than-efficient among the Janissaries there. I was thinking about the sort of military fuck-ups that led to Cyrus defeating the Babylonians and the embarrassing fate of the Egyptian air force back in '63.
As for Constantinople--well, it was contrived, but this
is a Vladwank. Vlad has a weaker army than the Ottomans, and there's absolutely no way he could take the city without some sort of backing from another European power. But the idea here was that
they couldn't close one of the gates, allowing the Wallachians to get inside the city
without much of a siege.
Still unlikely? In the extreme, but given infinite timelines and all that...
But you have a point about the Ottoman navy...
We'll assume things get somewhat more more realistic from this point, but first we've gotta establish Vlad as
kind of a big deal.